Friendly Reminder: We're excited to be hosting the Water Polo Spring Jamboree on Saturday, March 24th in the Competition Pool (5 lanes) from 12pm to 5pm. Come out and cheer on our Swim Academy Water Polo Team! Please be sure to look at our Aquatics schedule, and note that Lane Swim is limited from 12pm-5:30pm. Good luck to all the teams.

Field House Schedule Changes | March 24th & 25th

Friendly Reminder: We're excited to be the host venue for the 2018 Halifax Open Volleyball Tournament (Dalhousie Tigers Senior Men's & Women's) on Saturday, March 24th from 8:30am to 10pm and Sunday, March 25th from 8am to 8pm in the full Field House. Drop-in Fitness classes that regularly run in the Field House will be relocated and the Track will be open during the Tournament. For more information on the tournament, see the event listing.

Upcoming Maintenance | March 19th-27th

From March 19th-27th, we'll be tackling maintenance tasks in the Change Rooms and Mainstreet (lobby) area that are impossible to complete while open. For all the details, click here. Thank you for your understanding.

News

CGC Aquatics Teams Make Waves This Summer

Masters Swim Team Members Compete at World Swimming Championships

From August 14th-August 20th, the 17th World Masters Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary brought together swimmers from across the world. While there were many different languages, cultures and countries present at this event, one obvious commonality amongst all the athletes was their passion for swimming. Masters Teams from Nova Scotia were represented by six swimmers, including CGC Masters Swim Team members Ewa Gawlik and Helena Piccinini.

Congrats Ewa on your gold medal and record setting performance! Way to go ladies!

CGC Summer Swim Team Claim Small Team Champions and Most Improved

The 2017 Summer Swimming Provincials were held from August 18th-August 20th in Windsor, NS. The CGC Summer Swim Team took home awards for Small Team Champions (11-12 Age Group) and Most Improved Team, with four swimmers selected for the Nova Scotia All Star Team.

The CGC swam to a 6th place finish overall, up from 8th last year with 1503 points, up 903.5 points from last year.

“We had 6 individual medalists, a bronze for our 11-12 boys relay and a silver for our 13-14 boys relay, many Top 10 swims, and one of our swimmers tied for the Highest Individual Points for a Male” said Nathan Mendel, one of the CGC coaches. “Overall it was a great meet with strong performances from all of our swimmers and a lot of best times.”

Congratulations to our CGC Summer Swim Team on an amazing end to the summer swim season!

Junior Lifesaving Competition

Admist the fog and humidity at Rissers Beach, our two junior lifesavers Ruben and Ella Mae gave it their all on August 13th. Ruben participated in the rescue tube swim and the wading race, while Ella took part in the beach flags. Ruben won second place in the rescue tube swim, and Ella achieved third place in beach flags.

The rescue tube swim consists of participants swimming around buoys in the water while wearing a rescue tube. The wading race has athletes go around three flags set in the shallow water, racing each other and tring to take the lead by running, swimming and jumping while using the waves to gain speed. In the beach flags event, participants lie face down in the sand and at the sound of the whistle they jump up, turn around and sprint 20m to catch the flag before others.

“They both had a great amount of fun,” said Olivier Blais, Junior Lifesaving coach. “Between events we practiced different techniques to use in the waves, and fooled around too of course.”

The day ended with a giant game of tug of war for all the participants.